Volume 1 The Story of Robbery Chapter 137 A Case Within a Case
Why did the queen's personal slave happen to appear near the osmanthus cake that could fall in the autumn. Is this just a coincidence?
In those palace dramas, the queen may become narrow-minded because her child accidentally flowed out, and there may be a knot in her heart, as soon as she sees and hears that a concubine is pregnant, she will worry that her status is not guaranteed, so she will do everything possible to get rid of the baby in the concubine's belly.
Lord Cao and Wang Laohu met the queen mother.
"Minister Cao Hongting sees the queen's mother, Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose." Lord Cao and Wang Laohu greeted the queen mother.
"Cao Aiqing, let's get even."
"Thank you, Queen Mother." Lord Cao and Wang Laohu got up.
"Cao Aiqing, I heard that the emperor ordered you to investigate the case of Concubine Hui's violent death, how is the investigation now?"
"Back to Niangniang's words, Concubine Hui died violently, there are many suspicions, and the minister is collecting strong evidence to solve the case as soon as possible."
"So when you came to Bengong today, did you have something to ask about Bengu?"
"The minister doesn't dare, the minister just heard about one thing, and wants to come and hear what the queen mother said?"
"Cao Aiqing, what crazy gossip did you hear in the palace? Do you have any doubts about this palace? ”
"Weichen did hear something, but it wasn't about the queen's mother, but Niangniang's personal slave, so I came to ask Niangniang for verification."
"Oh, it's Po Zhu's business, what is there about Po Zhu that makes Lord Cao so bothered."
"On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, your personal maid appeared in a place where she shouldn't have been, and just happened to meet the slaves of Concubine Xi, and they picked up the scattered osmanthus cake together, and this osmanthus cake was the snack that Concubine Hui ate at night."
"Cao Aiqing therefore suspected that the palace deliberately arranged this, so that Po Zhu could get close to Qiu Neng and take the opportunity to poison the cake."
"Weichen doesn't dare, Weichen just thinks it's strange, why didn't your maid appear late, early, and appeared at this time in a place that is not your bedroom."
"If you want to know the answer, I'll tell you. On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the main palace went to the palace of the concubine Qigui, and it was the main palace that asked her to come out to get something, and she happened to meet Qiu Neng, the girl. ”
"Queen Mother, that is, you were also nearby that night." Wang Laohu asked.
The queen mother glanced at Wang Laohu and said, "Who are you?" ”
"He just worked with me." Cao Daren.
"As I said just now, this palace is in the bedroom of Concubine Qi, and this concubine's bedroom is near here."
"Queen Mother, why haven't you seen your maid Bozhu? Can you let your maid come out, I have something to ask her. Wang Laohu asked.
"Po Zhu, Bengong ordered her to go and get a sachet, Concubine Rong's sister said that someone sent a few new sachets with a pleasant fragrance, and Bengong asked her for one. Perzhu should be back soon. In this way, this palace asked Po Yun to urge. ”
Po Yun received the order, and then left the dormitory.
"The two Aiqing, the sister of the concubine of the main palace, finally became pregnant with the dragon species, but unexpectedly encountered this flying disaster in the Chinese New Year's Eve, this person has sinister intentions, he is challenging the emperor's dragon might. Lord Cao, you have to solve the case as soon as possible, find out the murderer, and let Concubine Hui's sister look at it earlier. ”
"Wechen must do his best to solve the case as soon as possible." Cao Daren.
"Cao Aiqing, this concubine sister is usually kind to people, and she doesn't easily talk about people behind her back, why did you say that such a person died?"
"Concubine Hui and her personal maid are coming?" Wang Laohu asked.
"This personal maid can't get along with the master." Although the queen mother said this, she suddenly changed her words, "By the way, when you say this, this palace remembers, once, when this palace and several younger sisters such as Xi Guifei, Qi Guifei, Rong Guifei, and Hui Guifei were partying, Mingyue, this girl, accidentally broke a cup. Originally, this was also a trivial matter, but then Mingyue and Qiu Neng quarreled somehow. Concubine Hui also scolded Mingyue a few words. ”
"Queen Mother, when did this happen?" Wang Laohu asked.
"Before the Chinese New Year, it was probably the fifteenth day of the lunar month."
"Then how does Concubine Hui usually treat Mingyue?" Wang Laohu asked again.
"Usually, it's nothing, it seems that the relationship between the two is good, and the palace sees that Concubine Hui's sister is very hot that time, maybe she is pregnant, and this emotion is not under her control."
"Queen Mother, it's not good, it's not good." There was a frightened voice from outside.
I saw Po Yun running in from outside. "Po Yun, what kind of system is it that is making a fuss." The queen said angrily.
"Oh no, Queen Mother, no...... Perk bead her, she's dead. ”
"What do you say? You repeat. The queen said loudly.
"Queen Mother, Po Zhu, she's dead!"
"Dead." Wang Laohu exclaimed, "Queen Mother, let's hurry up, maybe this murderer hasn't run away yet." ”
"Okay, I'll go with you."
Po Zhu fell in the corridor five hundred meters away from the queen's bedchamber. The corridor here is winding, and on one side it is close to the palace wall, and on the other side is a small pond, and because it is cold, the water in this pond is frozen.
Po Zhu fell under the pillar near the pond side of the corridor, facing the direction of the queen's bedchamber, lying on the ground motionless, her eyes open, not closed, and the blood still flowing.
"It looks like this murder has just happened, Rong Yu, Pan Tai, you two look around, see what new discoveries are made around here, don't let go of the small details." Wang Laohu commanded.
"Queen Mother, do you think the person lying on the ground is Po Zhu?" Wang Laohu asked.
"Judging by her costume, it's Po Zhu." The queen was afraid of making a mistake, so she instructed Po Yundao, "Po Yun, go up and take a closer look, is it this girl Po Zhu." ”
Po Yun cautiously stepped forward to look at the person lying on the ground, nodded, and said, "Niangniang, this person is Po Zhu." ”
"It seems that the backyard of this palace is becoming more and more restless. Lord Cao, I will leave it to you to deal with it here, and the main palace will go back to the dormitory first. ”
"Congratulations to the Queen." Lord Cao and Wang Laohu said.
Wang Laohu put on simple gloves and looked at Po Zhu's corpse, and there was no blood flowing out of his back, and there were no obvious injuries. Wang Laohu was about to turn over the body of Po Zhu, and Lord Cao said: "Prince Wang, this happened in the palace, and it is not good for us to do this now." ”
"Lord Cao, this girl Po Zhu may have something to do with Concubine Hui's violent death. We were just about to talk to her, but she was killed, and it was too much of a coincidence. So I have reason to suspect that Perjou knows something that we need to know, but we don't. ”
"You're saying that this pearl has been killed."
"It's a big possibility." Wang Laohu turned over the body of Pe Zhu while speaking, there was a hole in the clothes on Po Zhu's chest, like a crack when a knife pierced, the chest part of the clothes had been dyed red, and blood was flowing out, it seemed that this Po Zhu was stabbed by someone with a knife, and died of excessive blood loss.
Along the way, there was still some blood dripping on the way back.
"It seems that this pearl was killed on the way to the queen's bedroom." Wang Laohu said
Since she was rushing back, she should have a sachet in her hand. Wang Laohu remembered the words of the emperor's mother, "Pozhu, I ordered her to go and get a sachet, and Sister Rong said that someone had sent a few new sachets with a pleasant fragrance, so I asked her for one." Perzhu should be back soon. ”
Looking at Po Zhu's hand again, there is no sachet, is she hiding it in her arms, Wang Laohu touched it around, and there was no sachet.
"Childe. Come and see. Pan Tai said. Wang Laohu and Master Cao hurriedly walked over, and in the direction pointed by Pan Tai, on the side of the wall near this corridor, a delicate bag fell into the grass. Could it be that this is the bag that the queen mother ordered to retrieve from the pearl, and Wang Laohu picked up this bag. This place is about fifty meters away from the place where Po Zhu fell to the ground, could it be that Po Zhu was chased all the way, and finally was slashed to death in this position.
Wang Laohu's mind came to mind the scene of Pe Zhu being chased and killed, Po Zhu took the bag from Rong Guifei and rushed back, when she arrived here, the killer appeared, Po Zhu was very scared, she ran, not careful, the bag in her hand fell, in this position, Po Zhu was stabbed in the chest, fell to the ground, she also crawled forward two meters on her stomach, and finally died of excessive blood loss.
Who is this murderer and why did he kill a maid? I and Master Cao just wanted to ask her about something, and this girl was killed, is there some kind of connection between this, is this girl knowing something we don't know, so she was killed?